Report of Doudou Dienè omits
Multiracial Caboclos of the Amazon
27/02/2008
The final document submitted by the rapporteur of the United Nations (UN) on
contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related
intolerance, the Senegalese Doudou Diéne, during his visit to Brazil between on
October 17-26, 2005, didn't make any reference about to the Caboclo population of the country,
Multiracials of Native and European origin. Caboclos are the most numerous ethnic-racial
identity of the Amazon and prevailing in other regions of the country.
While stating that "slavery was abolished in 1888. Racial miscegenation
that followed between whites, blacks and Indians determined the ethnic and
cultural map of Brazil", the report omits the populations of Multiracial
identity (such as mulatto, caboclos and cafuzos), classifying all as
african-descendants - miscegenation between Natives and Europeans begins in Brazil since its colonization, in the sixteenth century, before the arrive of Africans in the country.
The report also refers the project of
the Statute of Racial Equality, considered discriminatory and mestizophobic by
the Multiracial movement, as a project supported "by most political actors."
Doudou Dienè had a match with the then Minister Matilde Ribeiro,
of the Special Secretariat of Policies for the Promotion of Racial Equality
(SEPPIR), who resigned after reports of irregular use of corporate card. Leaders
of the Multiracial movement of Brazil were perplexed with what was said with the
Doudou Dienè's report,
saying that this does not reflect the reality of ethnic-racial country, promotes
interests of groups that want to impose on the Brazilian Multiracials the Black
identity, goes against the Declaration of Durban and collaborates with the conflict between
Multiracials and Blacks in Brazil.